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Normec Schrader Institute

For more than 50 years, the Normec Schrader Institute has been a trusted partner for efficacy testing, product consulting, and cosmetic product analysis. With a team of 80 experts, it provides scientifically grounded claim support for the cosmetics industry, including SPF and anti-wrinkle testing.

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About us

For more than 50 years, we have been at the forefront of developing and refining measurement methods that have set the standard in the cosmetics industry. Research at the Schrader Institute has often been the starting point for the development of new methods. Our approach is: first conduct research, then develop and test, and finally analyze. 

The Sebumeter and ICL-S/H are separated not only by 50 years of continuous and thorough work, but also by 50 years of ideas and concepts for new physiological measurement principles for skin and hair that have since evolved into mature methods used worldwide today. Innovations such as our Corneometer and Sebumeter are now used internationally and provide reliable, scientifically validated efficacy tests for cosmetic products. 

The Schrader Institute not only utilizes the latest technologies but is also a constant source of new, practical methods and instruments for skin and hair physiological testing on volunteers and in the laboratory.  

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  • Max-Planck-Str. 6
    37603 Holzminden, Germany
    +49 55 31 93 13 0
    info-schrader-institute@normecgroup.com

Services

Explore our services and discover how we can support you. With a wide range of solutions, we help you address a variety of challenges, tailored to your organization.

Close-up of a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility featuring a stainless steel tank containing a blue formulation, highlighting galenic development, drug formulation, and the precise production of pharmaceutical products in a controlled laboratory environment.

Application Technology – Galenics

Hair Testing for Cosmetic Products

Skin physiology testing

SPF and UVA testing for sun protection products

Testing cosmetic ingredients

Quality Through Experience

Normec Schrader Institute – nucleus of globally applied procedures.

New methods that are the basis for determining the effectiveness of and tolerance to cosmetic products.Five decades of developing ideas and principle concepts for measuring skin- and hair-physiological parameters, which have been adopted worldwide and matured into today´s standard test methods.

Our best-known developments:

  • Corneometer
  • Sebumeter
  • Cutometer
  • FOITS
  • Chemilumineszenz
  • HDRS

Practical knowledge

The Normec Schrader Institute offers an extensive knowledge database with articles on topics such as skin and hair testing, galenics, analytical methods, and research. These resources are intended to provide insights into the latest developments and methodologies in cosmetic science. For more information, please visit our knowledge page.

Knowledge - Database

Hair Care

The Skin's Condition

UV and Washing Resistance

Certification

Guaranteed Certified - The Highest Level Of Quality. Since 2007, Normec Schrader Institute have regularly undergone certification procedures. With success: in the past, DIN requirements were not only met but actually for the most part exceeded. In the future as well we will take part in certification measures – in order to meet our customer’s requirements and guarantee the highest level of quality.

Accreditation

We go for quality. For guaranteed results. In order to give our customers even more confidence in our quality of our analytical services, many of our methods used by our analytical laboratory (former Institut Dr. Schrader Ancopharm) have been accredited since 2016 by the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS). The accreditation is only valid for the scope of accreditated procedures listed in the document annexure, register no. D-PL22588-01-00.

We are part of the Normec Group.

Normec is a leading organisation in the TICC industry (Testing, Inspection, Certification, Compliance). Our areas of expertise range from (drinking) water quality, air quality and soil quality to fire safety, food safety, management systems, fair labour, good working conditions and social compliance. Every day, we work towards a safe, healthy and reliable working and living environment. For this and future generations.